Even the palace is still silent at this time. In the silence, only the crisp sound of insects sounds more pleasant and crisp.

Xu Ping suddenly felt a little regretful. Why did he ask the Privy Council what strategy he had? What does it have to do with him? Even if Dangxiang is in trouble, it is just an unstable frontier. Even if you give up Guanzhong, he would not dare to lead troops to occupy it. Otherwise, the army would surround the Dangxiang army and swallow up his strategic mobile power, and then he could take the army to take over the Dangxiang territory.

To put it bluntly, if Dangxiang had not rebelled, it would have blocked traffic in the northwest and even the Western Regions, and would have affected horse imports and economic exchanges. If it weren't for the Khitan backing, it would have restrained the strategic power of the Song Dynasty, Dangxiang's status would have been much higher than that of Jiaozhi. Even in terms of flexibility and room for maneuver, he was far from comparable to Jiaozhi.

So what if he wants to rebel? Even in the worst situation, he can still clean up.

Alas, talking more words aroused Zhao Zhen’s concern and forced himself to write some reform strategy.

Reforming the government is easy to say. Now, he can talk about any scholar when he goes out on the street for half a day. If he posted a post online in Xu Ping's previous life, he could tell how many days and nights it took.

However, if you really consider feasibility and effectiveness, and reduce side effects, there will be very few choices. Moreover, it is very complicated, and it is difficult to say where to start and how to do it step by step.

As long as you set the steps, even if you barely take the first step, the second step will be 100% off. There is no need to be lucky, and there is no room for luck. Reform can only have goals and a general direction. The specific process and measures taken must be adjusted according to the actual situation. Only by constantly adjusting can the direction of the reform be correct and the reform will ultimately achieve the goal.

You can set the goal of the first step, and after achieving the first step, how to take the second step according to the actual situation. But you can't say what should be done in the first step and what should be done in the second step. Otherwise, when the first step is implemented, there will never be a chance to move forward again in the second step.

Any time when things start, without talking about the goal, or after talking, they are determined casually and freely what to do, what to do in the first step, what to do in the second step, how to do in this and that thing, just like Emperor Taizong of Song used a brilliant plan to command war, defeating one hundred times and losing one hundred times. Moreover, they will not only lose in every battle, but also quickly consume their credit and strength.

Today, Zhao Zhenke was politely in Tianzhang Pavilion, humbly asking Xu Ping about the reform strategy. When he really did what Xu Ping said, he found that there was a deviation from what he said today, so Zhao Zhen might never ask again.

Zhao Zhen turned around, and saw Xu Ping frowning tightly, pursing his lips without saying a word. He couldn't help but smile and said, "It's still early, so you can think about it slowly. Speaking of which, it's almost a year since you returned to Beijing. It's rare to be like today. We both monarch and ministers say what we are saying in our hearts. You opened a shop with Wang Gongchen, and the fruit wine sold inside tastes very good. I asked someone to learn to brew some in the palace, and we'll drink it tonight!"

Xu Ping replied respectfully: "Your Majesty has a decree, I should obey the order!"

Zhao Zhen ordered, and after a while, a small yellow door brought a large bucket over and placed two bottles of wine in it.

Xu Ping couldn't help but smile bitterly. The bucket was exactly the same as the one in his shop, and the size was almost the same as the same mold. What does this mean? It means that Zhao Zhen, the honest emperor, was also interested in the private lives of his subordinates and would send people to spy on him. The people in the Imperial City Department still remained unchanged.

After serving wine, they put on a few plates of fruits and vegetables. The two of them didn't sit down, and they casually held the cup and drank a few sips. This is Tianzhang Pavilion, and it is already amazing to serve wine. It is impossible to get a few plates and bowls of fish and meat.

While chatting with Zhao Zhen, Xu Ping was thinking about Zhao Zhen’s problem just now. The reform strategy was vague and vague, and it was not okay to say it too clearly. The gods could not estimate every step clearly. This intermediate level was very testicious, so Xu Ping had to rack his brains.

Zhao Zhen trusted Xu Ping, but it could not be unconditional trust in the end. This year was the observation period, and he felt that Xu Ping had his own ideas in doing things, and was well organized and effective, so he came to ask him. Today, the incident of the Party Envoy was just an introduction. Without this introduction, Zhao Zhen would find an excuse to ask in some days.

Xu Ping chatted with Zhao Zhen all the time, but thought about how to say it after a while.

The imperial palace was originally the prefecture of Bianzhou during the Tang Dynasty. It was a local government government. After several expansions during the Five Dynasties, the area could not be expanded, and the more buildings it seemed even more crowded. After Taizu ascended the throne, everything was simple. There were only dozens of eunuchs in the palace, and there were less than a hundred palace maids. It was about the same size as an ordinary wealthy family. It didn’t feel crowded. After Taizong, more people served, and it became crowded.

Even in Tianzhang Pavilion, you can vaguely hear the sounds from other palaces, adding a sense of city access.

Xu Ping held the wine glass, looked at the night, and listened to the voices coming from afar, and suddenly he had an enlightenment.

Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu and others shouted to assist the king every day. In fact, what they said made sense. The great way is simple, but the great way has been tested by countless practices, so they will definitely not be wrong. Of course, Xu Ping did not understand the great way of those people, but his political courses that he had been in his previous life for more than ten years, had his own great way.

Can historical materialism and dialectics also be the great way of this era?

Productivity determines the production relationship, and the production relationship has a reaction on the productivity. How simple and clear, when the productivity reaches a certain level, the quantitative change of development accumulates to the qualitative change, it will naturally require the production relations to adapt to itself. If the energy accumulated by the productivity is not enough to cause the change of the production relations, then the productivity will regress and be still bound by the original production relations. In China, a unified society, the constraints of production relations on productivity are far greater than those in other parts of the world. In other places, the development of productivity that can cause stormy changes may be just a small wave in China. Therefore, Xu Ping must make key breakthroughs in the textile industry, from point to surface.

When asked about the reform strategy, Xu Ping can answer the only way to develop productivity in several key directions. Specifically, it is nothing more than the commercial layout of the textile industry and the three departments, using the power of the government to pave the way for the commercialization of the textile industry.

The sum of various production relations constitutes the economic foundation, and the economic foundation determines the superstructure. The superstructure mainly includes two aspects, political structure and ideology. The statement Xu Ping thought of a few days ago was actually ideology, which matched the ideology with the future commodity economy. As for the political structure, in the early stage of commodity economy, the power of the Sansi was enough to adapt. Moreover, in this era, the political structure still had relatively few constraints on the commodity economy.

To put it bluntly, the external manifestation of the economic foundation of human society is nothing more than just a few. Primitive society corresponds to primitive economy, slave society corresponds to the well-field system in China, but it is actually the owner of the manor, feudal society corresponds to small peasant natural economy, capitalist society corresponds to commodity economy, and socialist society corresponds to planned economy.

What kind of economic foundation determines what kind of political structure and ideology. The economy of the manor owners is almost bound to correspond to slavery, even in the Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, the large manors correspond to slavery. It’s just that they do not occupy the mainstream of the entire society, and the mainstream is still the natural economy of small peasants.

By this era, the owner of the big manor has been wiped out and there is no need to worry about the resurgence of slavery. Politically, the annexation is not suppressed, and the corresponding small peasant economy is not strong, and the constraints on the development of the commodity economy are almost the smallest.

Capitalism is not the rule of capitalists. Without a corresponding economic foundation, capitalists will directly return to the slavery manor economy. To put it bluntly, the capital and land of capitalists are numerous. If land capital accounts for the mainstream of capitalists' capital, not only will there be capitalism, but even the small peasant economy will not exist. Instead, it will only make slavery the mainstream and reverse history. History has proved this point, and Xu Ping does not need to think about it.

What Xu Ping wants to do is to develop the commodity economy and make the commodity economy the mainstream of this era. As for what kind of society it will become under such a political structure, it is nothing more than a capitalist society with Chinese characteristics, which is different from Europe and the United States in history.

Where is the natural economy of small farmers more advanced than the owners of the manors? It improves the labor enthusiasm of workers, because the existence of differential land rent also increases the enthusiasm of landlords to improve soil fertility and improve farmland infrastructure. Under a pure agricultural society, this is the most reasonable system. Where is the high-quality economy more advanced than the natural economy? It lies in the chain of production, exchange, consumption and expanding reproduction. Once the links of consumption and expanding reproduction are cut off, the commodity economy will no longer exist, and the capitalist production relations will no longer exist. Commodities disappear and return to the natural economy.

The development of productivity must maintain the chain of the commodity economy, so that the economic foundation will be maintained. The superstructure built on it will be tenable, whether it is political structure or ideology. The more stable this chain, the more stable the society will be. If there is a problem with this chain, the foundation of the entire superstructure will be unstable.

After thinking through this, Xu Ping understood where to start the reform, how to do it, and what goals to achieve in the future. Perhaps each step is not clear, but at least ensure that you can go steadily and try to avoid repetition.
Chapter completed!